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- the following is directed in general to communication systems, and more particularly to a method of automatically sending multiple electronic mail (email) messages from a communications server to a mobile communication device and verifying correct receipt of the messages within the mobile communication device.
- email electronic mail
- Handheld devices are becoming increasingly popular for business and personal use due to a relatively recent increase in the number of services and features that the devices and mobile infrastructure support.
- Handheld devices sometimes referred to as mobile stations, are essentially portable computers having wireless capability, and come in various forms. These include Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), cellular phones and smart phones equipped with receivers and transmitters for communicating over a wireless network.
- PDAs Personal Digital Assistants
- cellular phones and smart phones equipped with receivers and transmitters for communicating over a wireless network.
- enterprise servers In order to facilitate communications and manage delivery of services to users of handheld devices within an enterprise, it is known to use one or more enterprise servers. These servers provide functionality and components that monitor services (such as provided by additional attachment servers, web servers, etc.) as well as process, route, compress and encrypt data for transmission to and from handheld devices connected to the wireless network.
- monitor services such as provided by additional attachment servers, web servers, etc.
- process, route, compress and encrypt data for transmission to and from handheld devices connected to the wireless network.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a typical enterprise server architecture with remote components.
- FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the method of the preferred embodiment.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing execution of an automated script according to the preferred embodiment.
- FIG. 4 comprising FIGS. 4A-4L , shows an exemplary script for implementing the method of the preferred embodiment.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing execution of a handheld device process according to the preferred embodiment.
- a typical enterprise server configuration is shown with enterprise servers 1 A and mail server 2 connected to a message database 3 .
- Enterprise server 1 B is also connected to an attachment server 5 .
- An administration computer 7 executes administration software for managing operation of the multiple servers 1 A and 1 B.
- the enterprise servers 1 A and 1 B connect to a server infrastructure 9 , through firewall 11 , using a router 13 .
- the server infrastructure 9 is connected to the Internet 15 which, in turn, communicates with a plurality of hand-held devices, such as device 19 , via wireless network 17 . Operation of the architecture shown in FIG. 1 would be well known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.
- an administrator interacts with an enterprise server (e.g. server 1 A) to execute a script from an email client associated with a mail account on mail server 2 (e.g. IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, etc.) that the enterprise server 1 A interacts with to retrieve messages and other data, as discussed in greater detail in connection with FIG. 2 .
- the script inputs the SMTP addresses of multiple users of handheld devices 19 , in response to which messages are automatically sent to the handheld devices 19 . This drastically cuts down on the amount of time required to test messaging.
- the administrator is automatically sent a test report once the emails have been sent to the device 19 and checked for error-free delivery, thereby relieving the administrator from having to manually examine each message on the device 19 to ensure proper delivery.
- the report can be delivered either after all of the messages from the script have been received, or in response to a specific message sent from the client messaging script.
- the script also automates attachment processing and regression testing. Regression testing allows the administrator to copy calendar entries from the handheld user's mail file to the device 19 and/or use calendar entry templates to generate non-recurring calendar entries in the handheld user's mail file.
- the script At the end of the test, the script generates one or more text files that log the results of the test. If the script detects any errors during its execution, it copies the failed mail messages to a database. Manual testing may then be performed on the failed mail messages/attachments to ensure that they are, in fact, the cause of errors on the enterprise server. A summary of the results may be sent to the administrator via email once the test is complete. The email has the detailed text logs attached to it for easy viewing. The administrators' email addresses may be specified in an INI file (configuration file taken as input by the script) or some other form of user input.
- INI file configuration file taken as input by the script
- a communication system having at least one enterprise server ( 1 A, 1 B, 1 C) for facilitating communications and delivery of services to handheld mobile communication devices ( 19 ) associated with users, wherein the communication system includes an automated script for testing communications by automatically sending a plurality of test messages from the at least one enterprise server ( 1 A, 1 B, 1 C) to at least one of the handheld mobile communication devices ( 19 ) associated with at least one user.
- the administrator prepares the server 1 A for use as an enterprise server (step 31 ), and ensures that the automated script is installed.
- the fictional user is then added to the server 1 A as a new user (step 33 ), in the enterprise server's email directory.
- the recipient SMTP addresses may be specified in an INI file and read by the script upon initialization. Alternatively, the script may prompt the administrator to input the addresses manually. In any event, the method of input is not important to an understanding of the system and method set forth herein.
- test message/calendar entries are copied (step 35 ) from a database 21 (mdgStore.nsf/calStore.nsf) to the user's mail file 23 within the mail server 2 .
- the enterprise server 1 A then polls the user's mail file for new messages (step 37 ), resulting in a plurality of test email messages being sent to handheld device 17 via the wireless network 17 (step 39 ).
- test messages contain a variety of subject, body, and recipient combinations. Details of an exemplary script are set forth in FIG. 4 , from which it will be noted that test messages are sent with subject and no body; no subject and no body; large body and small subject; large body and large subject; small body and large subject; small body and small subject; subject and body including only characters; subject and body including only symbols; messages with only a cc'd user; messages with only a bcc'd user, and others.
- the script of the preferred embodiment is suitable for use with Lotus Notes®, although a person of ordinary skill in the art will understand that scripts with similar functionality easily be written for use with other mail applications.
- the script also references certain attachments (.txt, .doc, vcf., .pps, .ppt, etc.) to the test email messages. Specifics of the attachments are not set forth herein, although it is within the abilities of a person of ordinary skill in the art to create such attachments.
- an application within device 19 is then executed, as shown in FIG. 5 .
- the handheld application is triggered either by a message from the script indicating that all of the test messages have been sent, or manually by the administrator (step 45 ).
- the device side application searches for each message in the message list on the handheld device 19 (step 47 ) and compares the stored messages to the actual messages received on the handheld device 19 (step 49 ). If any errors detected (step 51 ), the errors are saved in a “badMsgs.nsf” file on the device 19 , and reported to a debugging program 29 on enterprise server 1 A (step 53 ).
- the script uses the results from the handheld device application to generate the text log files (“debuglog” 25 in FIG. 2 ). As discussed above, these log files can then be emailed to the administrators (testers or other stakeholders) from the client side script. Messages can be traced by their NoteIDs in the debuglog file.
- the data specifying the stored messages on the handheld device 19 can be loaded onto the handheld device before executing the script or, in the alternative, can be sent wirelessly to the handheld device.
- This data is automatically generated by the script based on the database it uses to send data from (e.g. the database 21 in the embodiment of FIG. 2 ).
- each message can be identified by the NoteIDs in the three databases: msgStore.nsf, user's mail file, and badMsgs.nsf (for those test messages that resulted in errors).
- message 8F6/198E is indicated as having been delivered successfully (where “8F6” is the NoteID of the message in the msgstore.nsf, and “198E” is the NoteID of the message in the user's mail file).
- the enterprise server encountered a problem when delivering message EC2/199A->EBE (where “EC2” is the NoteID of the message in the msgStore.nsf, “199A” is the NoteID of the message in the user's mail file, and “EBE” is the NoteID of the message in the badMsgs.nsf).
- the administrator is left with the relatively simple task of reviewing the log to identify messages that caused errors and then taking appropriate corrective action on the server 1 A. Typically, the administrator then manually tests the message that caused the problem in order to investigate the source of the problem. Since the testing is fully automated by the script, the administrator can run the script overnight or at some other convenient time since there is no need to personally oversee the testing (apart from analyzing the results of the testing afterward).
- the process set forth herein drastically reduces the amount of time required to test messaging as compared to manual testing of the email function.
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- A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by any of the patent document or patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyrights whatsoever.
- The following is directed in general to communication systems, and more particularly to a method of automatically sending multiple electronic mail (email) messages from a communications server to a mobile communication device and verifying correct receipt of the messages within the mobile communication device.
- Mobile communication devices (hereinafter “handheld devices”) are becoming increasingly popular for business and personal use due to a relatively recent increase in the number of services and features that the devices and mobile infrastructure support. Handheld devices, sometimes referred to as mobile stations, are essentially portable computers having wireless capability, and come in various forms. These include Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), cellular phones and smart phones equipped with receivers and transmitters for communicating over a wireless network.
- In order to facilitate communications and manage delivery of services to users of handheld devices within an enterprise, it is known to use one or more enterprise servers. These servers provide functionality and components that monitor services (such as provided by additional attachment servers, web servers, etc.) as well as process, route, compress and encrypt data for transmission to and from handheld devices connected to the wireless network.
- It is known that certain email messages sent from the enterprise server to a handheld device may cause the server to “crash”. Accordingly, it is desirable to test all varieties of email messages that may cause the server to crash, before the server is deployed. However, there are many different possible combinations of email messages, any one of which may cause the server to crash. In order to test even a small subset of all possible messages, the messages must be manually composed at a server mail client and then sent to the handheld device. This is a very time consuming task for testers. Consequently, many enterprise servers are not fully tested before deployment to ensure that the email functionality is operating correctly.
- A detailed description of the preferred embodiment is set forth in detail below, with reference to the following drawings, in which:
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a typical enterprise server architecture with remote components. -
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the method of the preferred embodiment. -
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing execution of an automated script according to the preferred embodiment. -
FIG. 4 , comprisingFIGS. 4A-4L , shows an exemplary script for implementing the method of the preferred embodiment. -
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing execution of a handheld device process according to the preferred embodiment. - With reference to
FIG. 1 , a typical enterprise server configuration is shown withenterprise servers 1A andmail server 2 connected to amessage database 3.Enterprise server 1B is also connected to anattachment server 5. Anadministration computer 7 executes administration software for managing operation of themultiple servers enterprise servers server infrastructure 9, throughfirewall 11, using arouter 13. Theserver infrastructure 9 is connected to the Internet 15 which, in turn, communicates with a plurality of hand-held devices, such asdevice 19, viawireless network 17. Operation of the architecture shown inFIG. 1 would be well known to a person of ordinary skill in the art. - As discussed in greater detail below, in order to test email functionality an administrator interacts with an enterprise server (
e.g. server 1A) to execute a script from an email client associated with a mail account on mail server 2 (e.g. IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Exchange, etc.) that theenterprise server 1A interacts with to retrieve messages and other data, as discussed in greater detail in connection withFIG. 2 . The script inputs the SMTP addresses of multiple users ofhandheld devices 19, in response to which messages are automatically sent to thehandheld devices 19. This drastically cuts down on the amount of time required to test messaging. The administrator is automatically sent a test report once the emails have been sent to thedevice 19 and checked for error-free delivery, thereby relieving the administrator from having to manually examine each message on thedevice 19 to ensure proper delivery. The report can be delivered either after all of the messages from the script have been received, or in response to a specific message sent from the client messaging script. - According to the preferred embodiment, the script also automates attachment processing and regression testing. Regression testing allows the administrator to copy calendar entries from the handheld user's mail file to the
device 19 and/or use calendar entry templates to generate non-recurring calendar entries in the handheld user's mail file. - At the end of the test, the script generates one or more text files that log the results of the test. If the script detects any errors during its execution, it copies the failed mail messages to a database. Manual testing may then be performed on the failed mail messages/attachments to ensure that they are, in fact, the cause of errors on the enterprise server. A summary of the results may be sent to the administrator via email once the test is complete. The email has the detailed text logs attached to it for easy viewing. The administrators' email addresses may be specified in an INI file (configuration file taken as input by the script) or some other form of user input.
- Accordingly, there is provided a communication system having at least one enterprise server (1A, 1B, 1C) for facilitating communications and delivery of services to handheld mobile communication devices (19) associated with users, wherein the communication system includes an automated script for testing communications by automatically sending a plurality of test messages from the at least one enterprise server (1A, 1B, 1C) to at least one of the handheld mobile communication devices (19) associated with at least one user.
- Also set forth is a method of testing communications between at least one enterprise server (1A, 1B, 1C) and at least one handheld mobile communication device (19), the method comprising automatically sending a plurality of test messages from the at least one enterprise server (1A, 1B, 1C) to the at least one handheld mobile communication device (19).
- Operation of the script is described with reference to
FIG. 2 in conjunction withFIG. 1 , and the flowchart ofFIG. 3 , whereby a fictional or ‘dummy’ handheld user is created on theenterprise server 1A, email messages are sent to the user'shandheld device 19, and the results of sending those emails are reported back to the administrator. - First, the administrator prepares the
server 1A for use as an enterprise server (step 31), and ensures that the automated script is installed. The fictional user is then added to theserver 1A as a new user (step 33), in the enterprise server's email directory. The recipient SMTP addresses may be specified in an INI file and read by the script upon initialization. Alternatively, the script may prompt the administrator to input the addresses manually. In any event, the method of input is not important to an understanding of the system and method set forth herein. - Next, the script is executed within the
enterprise server 1A, whereupon test message/calendar entries are copied (step 35) from a database 21 (mdgStore.nsf/calStore.nsf) to the user'smail file 23 within themail server 2. Theenterprise server 1A then polls the user's mail file for new messages (step 37), resulting in a plurality of test email messages being sent tohandheld device 17 via the wireless network 17 (step 39). - The test messages contain a variety of subject, body, and recipient combinations. Details of an exemplary script are set forth in
FIG. 4 , from which it will be noted that test messages are sent with subject and no body; no subject and no body; large body and small subject; large body and large subject; small body and large subject; small body and small subject; subject and body including only characters; subject and body including only symbols; messages with only a cc'd user; messages with only a bcc'd user, and others. The script of the preferred embodiment is suitable for use with Lotus Notes®, although a person of ordinary skill in the art will understand that scripts with similar functionality easily be written for use with other mail applications. The script also references certain attachments (.txt, .doc, vcf., .pps, .ppt, etc.) to the test email messages. Specifics of the attachments are not set forth herein, although it is within the abilities of a person of ordinary skill in the art to create such attachments. - After the script has completed execution (step 41), an application within
device 19 is then executed, as shown inFIG. 5 . The handheld application is triggered either by a message from the script indicating that all of the test messages have been sent, or manually by the administrator (step 45). The device side application searches for each message in the message list on the handheld device 19 (step 47) and compares the stored messages to the actual messages received on the handheld device 19 (step 49). If any errors detected (step 51), the errors are saved in a “badMsgs.nsf” file on thedevice 19, and reported to adebugging program 29 onenterprise server 1A (step 53). The script uses the results from the handheld device application to generate the text log files (“debuglog” 25 inFIG. 2 ). As discussed above, these log files can then be emailed to the administrators (testers or other stakeholders) from the client side script. Messages can be traced by their NoteIDs in the debuglog file. - The data specifying the stored messages on the
handheld device 19 can be loaded onto the handheld device before executing the script or, in the alternative, can be sent wirelessly to the handheld device. This data is automatically generated by the script based on the database it uses to send data from (e.g. thedatabase 21 in the embodiment ofFIG. 2 ). - The contents of the log file are presented in the following format:
- Test Results Report Starting @06/02/2003 09:46:03 AM EDT
- Result for message with NoteIDs=8F6/198E:
- Message 8F6/198E appeared to be delivered successfully
- Result for message with NoteIDs=EBA/1992:
- Message EBA/1992 appeared to be delivered successfully
- Result for message with NoteIDs=EBE/1996:
- Message EBE/1996 appeared to be delivered successfully
- Result for message with NoteIDs=EC2/199A:
- Enterprise Server potentially encountered problem when delivering message EC2/199A->EBE
- Result for message with NoteIDs=EC6/199E:
- Enterprise Server potentially encountered problem when delivering message EC6/199E->EC2
- Result for message with NoteIDs=ECA/19A2:
- Enterprise Server potentially encountered problem when delivering message ECA/19A2->EC6
- Result for message with NoteIDs=ECE/19A6:
- Enterprise Server potentially encountered problem when delivering message ECE/19A6->ECA.
- As discussed above, each message can be identified by the NoteIDs in the three databases: msgStore.nsf, user's mail file, and badMsgs.nsf (for those test messages that resulted in errors). For example, message 8F6/198E is indicated as having been delivered successfully (where “8F6” is the NoteID of the message in the msgstore.nsf, and “198E” is the NoteID of the message in the user's mail file). On the other hand, the enterprise server encountered a problem when delivering message EC2/199A->EBE (where “EC2” is the NoteID of the message in the msgStore.nsf, “199A” is the NoteID of the message in the user's mail file, and “EBE” is the NoteID of the message in the badMsgs.nsf).
- The administrator is left with the relatively simple task of reviewing the log to identify messages that caused errors and then taking appropriate corrective action on the
server 1A. Typically, the administrator then manually tests the message that caused the problem in order to investigate the source of the problem. Since the testing is fully automated by the script, the administrator can run the script overnight or at some other convenient time since there is no need to personally oversee the testing (apart from analyzing the results of the testing afterward). The process set forth herein drastically reduces the amount of time required to test messaging as compared to manual testing of the email function. - A person skilled in the art, having read this description of the preferred embodiment may conceive of variations and alternative embodiments. The process set forth herein can, for example, be modified to test specific messages that are required by a test plan. Moreover, data (other than messages) can also be retrieved and compared from other handheld applications, such as the calendar, in the same manner. For each message compared, the
handheld device 19 sends results to the client side script. - All such variations and alternative embodiments are believed to be within the ambit of the claims appended hereto.
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